I guess it’s February now? January must have passed by without me noticing it. But at the same time, when I look back at January’s Goals post it feels like it was a loooong time ago. Almost like I was a different person altogether.
I wasn’t gaming much in January. I started the month out strong with all these lofty ideas on what I would do and what games I would play next. And here we are in February and I don’t think I completed a single goal…and that’s OK. I spent most of January reading and finished 4 books. I’m a slow reader so that’s quite an accomplishment there.
My interests seem to swing from gaming to reading around this time of year. It usually hits in November when I realize I have X number of books left to reach my Goodreads goal for the year. I guess I caught the reading bug late this year
When my interests swing back to gaming there tends to be a bit of a reset in my gaming interests. I was all about the sprawling, open-world, games at the beginning of the month. Now, nothing I listed here sparks my interest at the moment. Well, that’s not entirely true, I’m still spending a few minutes here and there in Immortals: Fenyx Rising.
With all that said, I’m taking this month off of goals. I’m sure I’ll be poking around before I find something to hold me for a while. I don’t know where or what I want to spend my free time on right now.
January Goal Wrapup
You know how I know that I wasn’t gaming as much in January? ManictTme lists Google Chrome as my top application for the month…
Complete CyberPunk 2077: I had this whole lengthy post in my head detailing why I didn’t finish this game. Then I realized I wasn’t interested enough in the game to write about why I was no longer interested in the game. Long story short, I got 30 incredible hours out of it and I don’t need to be in that world any longer. It has since been excommunicated from my SSD. It will now be resting in my “Games I’ll Never Finish but Will Think About Starting Up Again Someday” pile in Steam (and now I need to go make a collection with that exact name).
Finish Athena’s Zone in Immortals: Fenyx Rising: I’m going to give myself half credit for this one. I’ve done a lot of the Vaults of Tartaros, chests, puzzles, and constellations. I’ve only done one or tow of the story quests. I’m still booting the game up here and there to knock out some map objectives.
Craft Thallasion, Shaper of the Currents: It turns out I cannot play Trove part time. I’m either all in with a patron pass or I’m not launching the game for months on end. I tried to remember to log in every week to fill up my dragon coin tomes, I did. But I found logging on and only doing that was underwhelming. It felt more like work than fun so I haven’t touched it since.
January with the Squad
The little bit of time that I did spend gaming this month was with the boys over at Welpsqaudtv. We’ve been playing GTFO again and raging a little bit less. There’s a chance we’re actually getting better at the game! We also played Sea of Thieves as a 4 man group a few times. It’s been fun learning to use the galleon together.
Greg and I started playing Tera together this month. I’m actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. I started out playing a berserker but I’ve since leveled a priest up to where we left off. I’m having much more fun playing the priest.
Many Welps 
Taking a month off goals every once in a while is probably a good thing. I thought I was going to have to this month too until the BDO and DA:I bugs bit and I gained interest in gaming again, with WoW interest staring to wrap-up.
Reading took a fair bit of time from my Jan as well, I finished up the latest Stormlight Archive book from Brandon Sanderson, and started now on the latest two Dresdan Files books. I was waiting ages for one to come out, and now when I check back there’s two!! Much lighter reading those, but a nice palette cleanser while I scout out what’s next. 🙂
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I ended up reading a lot of the Dresden Files last year and I just finished Small Favors in December. Love the world and the characters! I read them in between heavier books as well.
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Aye, world and characters are fantastic. I bounced off the series pretty hard first time I tried to read it. The prose of book 1 really put me off. (read: I was being a snob.)
But once I got over that? Fantaaaastic, and opened another genre of books that I enjoy between the bigger ones. e.g., Alex Verus books are pretty amazing too if you’re enjoying these.
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